Hohenbruch
Name
Hohenbruch
Type
Arbeitserziehungslager
Dates
Opened: August 1939
Closed: January 1945
Location
GPS: 54.9765/21.4247 according to wikipedia but there is not really anything at that specific spot. Northeast of this place there are some ruins but they may be unrelated.
Monument: to be located, see Description.
Street Address: unkown
District: unknown
City: Гро́мово
Area: Калинингра́д
Country: Россия
Population
Company Names
Victims and Survivors
People with Polish, Jewish, Russian, Latvian, Czech, Belgian, Italian, French, German and other nationalities were interned here, as well as Sinti.
Names of victims and survivors, if these are known.
- Seweryn Pieniężny
- Władysław Gębik
Staff
This camp was run by the Gestapo (Königsberg).
Names of SS and other people involved in the exploitation, including convictions where applicable.
Description
Regarding the Monument:
In April 2006, a memorial to the victims of the Hohenbruch concentration camp in today's Kaliningrad Oblast was erected in the forest near the Curonian Lagoon between the villages of Polessk and Slavsk. The text on the memorial plaque was written by the Polish memorial institution Council for the Preservation of the Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom. (from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_Hohenbruch)
Some information here: http://jewsineastprussia.de/de/hohenbruchs-secrets/ , including mentions of working outside of the camp. No idea whether it will be possible to find this info.
Sources
- Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Hrsg.): Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Band 9: Arbeitserziehungslager, Ghettos, Jugendschutzlager, Polizeihaftlager, Sonderlager, Zigeunerlager, Zwangsarbeiterlager. C.H. Beck, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8, S. 612f.
